PESA Branch Activities

QLD Student and Early Career Mixer

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Despite the heavy rain, October’s joint-industry Student & Early Career Mixer was a huge hit with budding and established geologists alike, who made their way to Milton for industry networking opportunities.

The event attracted almost 100 attendees with a roughly even split between students, early careers geoscientists and established professionals.

The night’s youngest attendee, Ben Walker (who also happens to be the son of PESA Qld’s President), was the lucky recipient of one of the networking bingo rock prizes – a quartz geode from Morocco.

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“Energy Unearthed” – PESA QLD Symposium

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Authors: Kat Gioseffi, Fernando Valencia Fermin

In early September, several Santos technical staff attended the 2024 PESA QLD Symposium. Ten students submitted posters and over 90 delegates attended the full day event at the Brisbane Conference and Exhibition Centre. Themed “Energy Unearthed”, speakers and posters covered a diverse array of topics including:

  • Alternate energies (nuclear, hydrogen)
  • Coal seam gas
  • CCS and monitoring…

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WA Christmas Lunch

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PESA WA branch held its annual Christmas event and AGM on Thursday 12th December at the Parmelia Hilton Hotel. There were 150 members registered for the event.

The WA Branch President, Adam Craig welcomed everyone to the event and opened the AGM with a thankyou to all the sponsors who support PESA and without whom PESA would not be able to run its events for its members.

Adam presented a summary of the years events run by the branch;…

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2024 Membership Survey

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By Janny Spilsbury-Schakel

Firstly, a big thank you to those of you who completed the survey and helped us to shape how PESA is going to serve its members best. Our response rate was 24%. We got a good spread of responses across all the branches, however, demographically, the 25 to 39 age bracket is underrepresented in the survey when compared to our membership profile, so do bear that in mind when looking at the results! 

Our main focus areas for the 2024 survey were:

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WA PESA-ASEG Golf day 15th November

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The annual ASEG-PESA golf classic event was held on 15th November in glorious weather at Meadow springs where nearly 100 golfers turned out to compete for glory and prizes.

A new game was played with the Charity hole this year. As in previous years each player paid a donation to the charity to be able to compete to get nearer to the pin than the "pro". But as an added twist this year it was possible to pay an additional sum to the charity in order to "compromise" the pro. These…

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Kingia Play Comes Fuerst as Alex Packs Perth into the Shoe Box for Technical Evening Talk

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Fiona Burns

On Thursday 21st November PESA WA hosted a well-attended technical evening talk at the Shoe Bar in Perth.  Over 40 people gathered to hear Alex Fuerst, Senior Geologist at Molyneaux Advisors, deliver a very interesting presentation entitled “Top seal and compartmentalisation in the Kingia Play, implications for porosity preserving plays”.

Top seal and compartmentalisation in the Kingia Play, implications for porosity preserving plays”.Alex’s talk focused on the complexity of the Kingia play with regard to compartmentalisation. He discussed how the intense fracturing and…

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Field Trip: From a Carbonate Ramp to Siliciclastic Fluvio-Deltaics in a Tectonically Active Delamerian Cambrian rift. Seismic-Scale Depositional Systems in Outcrop Field Trip

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On a glorious spring weekend members and friends of the SA/NT Branch were able to participate in a self-drive field trip led by Rhodri Johns and Elinor Alexander.  This was a joint field trip with PESA SA/NT, GSA and the Field Geology Club of Adelaide.  It was an opportunity to investigate the Cambrian evolution of South Australia through spectacular seismic scale coastal exposures along the west coast of the Fleurieu peninsula.  

Although a two-day field trip participants had the option of participating in either or both days.

Attendees at this year’s PESA QLD Branch Symposium were first to see items featuring the
newly rebranded PESA Symposium artwork, designed by Leah Cummins of Bunya Designs.
Leah, had an extensive career at Origin Energy, is now producing art through her own
business www.bunyadesigns.com.au. Leah is a proud Mayi woman from North-Western
Queensland and described the meaning of new-look PESA QLD symposium artwork as
follows; “The large circles represent the states and territories, the contour lines represent th
land and ocean, the kangaroo feet represent moving forward never backwards.”
Judging by attendee feedback on the day, the new branding looks to be a success!
PESA QLD…

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Sarah Harris & Duncan Lockhart

Queensand’s Kat Gioseffi Receives PESA Meritorious Service Award

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PESA (Qld) Branch committee member and Santos Geologist, Katherine (Kat) Gioseffi, was the successful recipient of a PESA Meritorious Service Award (MSA) for 2024 in recognition of her unwavering passion for energy geoscience and her dedication to increasing society participation among early-career graduates.

Kat, who received her MSA at the Australian Energy Producers Conference and Exhibition in Perth in May, was nominated by the PESA (Qld) Branch in recognition of her steadfast pursuit of recruiting and retaining students and young career professionals to the upstream resources industry. 

MONTHLY MEETINGS

In late September, PESA SA/NT was treated to an enthralling discussion from Glenn Toogood (entX) and Tim Rady (Geomorph Energy) discussing the salt cavern storage potential of the Polda Basin.  This basin is a Neoproterozoic to Jurassic sedimentary basin, extending from the Great Australian Bight to the central Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. It has previously been explored for petroleum, uranium, coal, groundwater, base metals, potash and diamonds. There has been renewed interest in the Polda Basin for its underground gas storage potential in salt caverns, given that Mercury-1 encountered >1200m…

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